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Method

Use a potato peeler to remove the skin from the ginger. Discard skin, then carefully grate 1 tbsp from the root. Put in a bowl, crush in the garlic, and add the ketchup, oyster sauce, soy sauce and 3 tbsp water. Stir.

Use a sharp knife to cut the pepper into quarters on a board. Remove the seeds and stalk, then slice diagonally into strips. Cut the ends from the spring onions, and cut the green and white of the onion lengthways. Open the bag of beansprouts. Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces.

Boil a large pan of water on the hob. when the water is boiling, drop in the noodles, turn off the heat and set the timer to 4 mins. when the time is up, drain in a colander or a large sieve in the sink. ask an adult to help you.

With everything prepared, you can now start cooking. Heat the wok – it’s hot enough when it starts to smoke. add the oil and chicken. Use a wooden spoon to keep moving the chicken around the wok until it is half white, half pink. add the pepper and stir-fry for a further 1 min.

Pour the sauce into the wok and stir well until bubbling.

Add the noodles, beansprouts and spring onions a handful at a time, then toss into the sauce until it is well coated, stirring constantly until the beansprouts wilt. Serve in bowls – an easy way is to use tongs.

Loved this recipe! I didn't have any Ginger so left it out, and I don't like bean sprouts so I left them out as well. But I added mushrooms and carrots(they needed to be used up!) and instead of spring onions I used a half a red onion, since I halved the recipe. And it didn't take 35 mins to cook!!!

Great recipe. After cooking the noodles I drain and add cold water to stop noodles cooking any more. used 4 table spoons of oyster sauce and Japanese Kikkomon soy sauce (less salty than Chinese), a squirt of tomato sause and then equal amount of water. Used sliced onion and added peas. Used three nests for three people, two would have been enough. Enjoyed very much

this was great tasting easy dish, i only used 2 nests of noodles which was enough for 2 plus side plate for my 1yr old. i added mushrooms grated courgette and green peppers as i didnt have beansprouts. i also sprinkled 5 spice on the chicken as someone previously suggested, will definately be making this again

Very easy and extremely tasty mid-week meal. However, the number of servings on this recipe has got to be wrong. I used just 2 noodles nests instead of the recommended 3 and this recipe still served 3 people easily.

Excellent simple recipe. Have used it a couple of times now and the good thing about it is that you can tweak it to the taste you like. I add a chilli and corriander to it. Also good for using left over chicken, pork or beef after a sunday dinner. Definatly a keeper.

brilliant i've made this many times with various additions, always put in whatever we have in fridge ,ie mushrooms &any other veg we have. also use a bag of asda stir fry veg ,this is as good as any take away i've ever had.

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